Market Box Raiders

[Angel-Rae]

I restocked st higher prices today ... ... stuff’s still sitting there. :shrug: trying not to panic about being a s*#&t friend.

 

[calamitybot]

I don't mind when I get bought out. Bells are bells

 

[Pookyuk]

I never realised raiding was a thing! And I don?t understand why it?s an issue??

I often buy a lot from my visitors as it?s much easier to buy from their boxes when they have stuff one of my animals want on rotation!

And I have never resold.

It?s frustrating when you have a lot of one thing, so you marketbox some, only to find you get a load of requests so end up buying from fiends or visitors when you have some in your own marketbox!

 

[Angel-Rae]

I never realised raiding was a thing! And I don’t understand why it’s an issue??

I often buy a lot from my visitors as it’s much easier to buy from their boxes when they have stuff one of my animals want on rotation!

And I have never resold.

It’s frustrating when you have a lot of one thing, so you marketbox some, only to find you get a load of requests so end up buying from fiends or visitors when you have some in your own marketbox!

For me the issue was when I was cleared out in one go by one person. I have sixteen slots usually with a variety of fish, bugs and fruit. I used to make sure it was always fully stocked with a variety of the common fish etc at the lowest prices and worked hard each time I played to restock it. So I felt when they had bought me out they were doing it *instead* of hunting or fishing themselves and that they were taking advantage of or exploiting my in-game time and effort. Because I don’t expand my camper, the bells were not my motivation for filling my box, I have bells just adding up without out much use, I was selling stuff just trying to be useful to all of my friends. I’ve really relaxed about this now after reading other people’s points of view.

 

[Bcat]

Honestly I don’t care 1 bit if someone buys everything I have. I get paid, so it makes no difference to me.

 

[Roald_fan]

Is this still a thing since the introduction of the balloons? Ever since the balloons, I always have insane amounts of items, like 25 squid, and everything just sits in my market box, even though I price it the lowest I can. It used to get cleaned out pretty regularly. I assumed that everyone else had an overload of needed items at this point, too.

 

[honeyblossom]

I have buying anxiety when I buy out of people's market boxes for this reason. Like I'll only buy one or two items because I don't want someone on the other end to be like "oh look at this jerk, buying all my things!". So then when I need several things I have to go down my friend's list, to each of their market boxes to find the other things I'm looking for. It's a hassle, but, I don't want to upset anyone or make it harder for their friends or other people to access those items. I rarely ever preemptively buy, even if I know I'll need an item. I only buy it when I need it.